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Pakistan considering opening trade with India

Just to save there own monoplies, Some Business tycoons dont allow normal trade relations with neighbors. And purposefully link it with Rivalry with India.
Mutual trade will bring in competetion and over pricing will be challenged. Old inefficient buisness will get a run for there money. And new businessmen with innovative solutions and effeciency will emerge. Thats how whole developed world gor developed. And opposite to it, Protectionist went to dogs( So called Eastern block)
They are a market of 1 billion people plus. I can only imagine the amount of demand our products can get considering they are also not technically advanced economy.
With China it is almost totally one way trade.
 
Miftah is a pragmatic politician, not a populist one :cheers:
 
Its not a bad decision,

looking at their economic situation trade with India should have been opened much earlier.
The proximity of Indian Punjab to Pakistani Punjab will make it a good deal for both sides because of less transport cost.
 
Pakistan needs more economic power in order to become more powerful. Having nukes and a strong military is not enough.

Pakistan is not a critical economic partner to any country. We can change that by doing the following.

1. Build rail links with Iran and India so that the massive Indian population could take vacations in Pakistan and Iran

2. Become an oil/gas pipeline transit to deliver energy from Iran/Iraq to India/Bangladesh. Lobby to connect the pipelines to other oil/gas producers in the area.

3. Coupled with #1, expand the container port in Karachi so that exports(to Europe) from Indian Punjab can be routed through Karachi.
 
Pakistan needs more economic power in order to become more powerful. Having nukes and a strong military is not enough.

Pakistan is not a critical economic partner to any country. We can change that by doing the following.

1. Build rail links with Iran and India so that the massive Indian population could take vacations in Pakistan and Iran

2. Become an oil/gas pipeline transit to deliver energy from Iran/Iraq to India/Bangladesh. Lobby to connect the pipelines to other oil/gas producers in the area.

3. Coupled with #1, expand the container port in Karachi so that exports(to Europe) from Indian Punjab can be routed through Karachi.

Your first paragraph was correct but everything else you wrote was an epic flop of biblical proportions. The reality is that Pakistan can NEVER EVER have formal relations and links with india. Neither Pakistanis nor indians want this. We can have full relations with ANY nation on earth except india. That will NEVER happen. The biggest failure of Pakistan is not effectively utilising our potential economic links with China and Iran. That is where we have failed badly but it can be corrected.
 
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